‘The Story of the Christmas No1: Mistletoe & Vinyl’ by @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk is up there with ‘Regenerate, Exterminate: The Story of Doctor Who’ by @johnhiggs.bsky.social and ‘The Day of the Doctor’ by Steven Moffat as best book evs

When I heard the first word of this song on The war between the land and the sea I knew what it was. What a great version of Heroes open.spotify.com/track/0cnVtB...

Available for 99p on Kindle today www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Christ...

I went to hear @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk talk about his new book about Christmas No. 1s last night - would recommend: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2025/12/marc...

The Story of the Christmas No.1 — Mistletoe & Vinyl is out now! "A hugely entertaining romp through six decades of music trivia ⭑⭑⭑⭑ " — Classic Pop Magazine. Lots of other books available too! Perfect stocking filler for the music nerd in your life. www.marcburrows.co.uk/s/shop

xkcd.com/3172/ 🥹

Listening to Gideon Code on BBC 6 Music yesterday (the previous Sunday's show) - he played a song which was buried in my memory since I was a child. It was the theme tune to The Flashing Blade. It wasn't so much the tune which evoked memories (unlike Black Beauty which totally is), but the lyrics.

When I was at school my friends recited Monty Python. I wonder if today’s school kids recite John Finnemore. He’s as good as Python www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

TIL the helicopter sound on Kate Bush’s Ninth Wave came from Dark Side of the Moon

I engaged a social media consultancy firm to help with my personal brand. Here's what they recommended: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2025/08/soci...

Pepperami - "it's a bit of an animal". Today I realised it literally (really literally) is a bit. Of an animal.

Bit of a long shot but are any of you going to see ELO at Hyde Park?

We've got a couple of questions on your latest guidance, NASA. Second start to the right of what? And straight on until what time in the morning?

Human: "you want everything I know about X, that will take a while" Computer: "you want everything from my X table, that shouldn't take long" Human: "you want to know this specific instance of X, that should be easy" Computer: "you want all X where this specific thing is true, that will take awhile"

During a geography exam at school I wrote "(c) Slartibartfast" next to where I'd drawn the outline of Norway. #maths en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I'm reading Alex's adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos and the world of the hyperbolic plane has opened up to me. The next time I open a tube of Pringles I'm going to be staring at them wierdly.

When two of the internet people you know find each other: xkcd.com/2942/ bsky.app/profile/xkcd... bsky.app/profile/gret...

I was suspended on Twitter, so I'm moaning about it: manypies.paulmorriss.com/2024/05/i-wa...

Me: all this BBC cross promotion on iPlayer is so tedious so I skip it. Also me: why didn’t they tell us #raceacrosstheworld is back until today?

@louisebrown.bsky.social I saw this and thought of your love of Venn diagrams: xkcd.com/2903/

ZX80 owned by school. First owned by me: the Spectrum. I still have it in the loft!

Isn't it boring when the first thing you post on a new platform are thoughts about the platform? I need to work out where I'm going with Mastodon, Twitter and this. I suspect I may need to have to put some actual effort in. The tool that helped me find Twitter people on Mastodon helped